closing weekend for middleton heights

After a virtually sold-out run, the stand-out world premiere play Middleton Heights closes this weekend. 

Celebrate the closing with us with a special pre-show performance by the Iskwelahang Pilipino (IP) Tinikling Dance Group on Sunday, April 23!

Don't delay! There are only a handful of tickets left for Thursday night's performance and the rest of the run is SOLD OUT.

photo credit: Gillian Mariner Gordon

Can't get enough of Middleton Heights? Playwright Hortense Gerardo was recently interviewed by the International Center for Women Playwrights for its Centre Stage podcast and the Los Angeles-based FilAm Arts for its two-part Instagram interviews series.

Plus, get ready for our final show of the 2022-2023 season, The Color Purple.

With a joyous Tony Award-winning score featuring jazz, ragtime, gospel, African music and blues, The Color Purple is a story of hope, an intensely moving American classic, and a triumphant theatrical treasure.

Running in the Main Stage Theater 144 from May 12 - June 4!

Earth Day Celebration 2023

Saturday, April 22, 10am-1pm

Join us this Saturday for Earth Day at The Umbrella! 

Build and launch an Earth Float, enjoy live music and performances, partake in arts & crafts, and complete the Earth Month Exhibit scavenger hunt. 

10am: Welcoming Ceremony on The Umbrella's front lawn​ featuring storytelling, music and performances.

10:30am - 12pm:

• Earth Float building on the lawn
• Arts & crafts
• Face painting & Henna art 
• Music
• Animals provided by The Nature Connection 
• Earth Month Exhibit scavenger hunt

For full details, click the button below!

photo credit: Ron Mann

Plus, don't miss this year's annual Earth Month exhibition, Reflections: Listening to Nature - on view now through April 23!

Featuring more than 100 unique works, this non-juried exhibition includes artwork submitted by community members of all walks on the theme of "Reflections".

last chance to register

The Umbrella Ceramics Studio is excited to welcome renowned ceramic artist Paul Briggs for a two-day weekend workshop!

In Pinch-Forming: A Mindful Approach, students will observe Paul's unique and meditative process for creating pinched vessels and learn pinch forming techniques through a variety of forms and embellishments.

Registration is available for the Saturday demo only, as well as limited registration for both the Saturday demo & Sunday workshop.

The Concord Film Project returns on Tuesday, April 25 at 7:30pm with the "passionate and humanistic tale", Leave No Trace.

From the Academy Award-Nominated Writer and Director of Winter's Bone comes Leave No Trace. Will (Ben Foster) and his teenage daughter, Tom (Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie), have lived off the grid for years in the forests of Portland, Oregon. When their idyllic life is shattered, both are put into social services. After clashing with their new surroundings, Will and Tom set off on a harrowing journey back to their wild homeland.

Art Ramble Call for Art

The Umbrella Arts Center has announced its call for art for this year's Art Ramble, an annual temporary outdoor public art installation sited around Fairyland Pond in historic Hapgood Wright Town Forest, in collaboration with the Concord Natural Resources Division. 

This year's theme is "Geo-Metric," focuses on work that measures natural patterns and changes that result from exposure to the environment or to human intervention.

In the community

Concord Art is pleased to announce, THIS EARTH, curated by Stefan Hagen. Hagen is the founder of the Montello Foundation Artist Residency in Nevada. 

Each artist's works examines themes like human impact and the fragility of nature, the mediums in the show include photography, painting, sculpture, poetry, video, puppetry, music and fragrance. On view March 30 - May 7, 2023.